The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1946, Page 1

N VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,242 _— SIRIKE TH e e ————————————————— highly successful. The Legislature not only passed all the recommend- | ed health measures, including an | lEGISlATUR | appropriation of $250,000 for tuber- | culosis for the current year (which | contrasts with the $30,000 annual| Jupproprhnon made available at! | | the last session), but for good | measure passed* another medical bill, the so-called Basic Sciences Act, | Jdeslgned to secure higher stand-| ards in the application of the heal- ing art. | “Most important, the Legislature| |passed a splendid veterans’ bill, | | whose provisions, I am confident,| iwill equal if not exceed those of lany veterans’ bill passed by any Bill, Health, School LegISIahon {state in the unicn. This bill not| lonly makes possible the achieve-! Declaring that the achievement ment of some of the unattainable of the 30-day special session of the provisions in the Federal G. I. Bill Alaska Legislature, concluded here of Rights, but goes a great deal on April 2, will rank as high as/farther. that of any legislature in Alaskan| history, Gov. Ernest Gruening to-; “It is, as I have said, a splendid day released a report expressing pill, although its effectiveness inj his view on the accomplishments of serving the veterans will depend the legislative session. 'to a considerable degree on its ad-! Partial text of this review ad- ministration. It is my hope to ap- dressed “To the People of Alaska” point and secure confirmation of a follows: |board composed of veterans of! GOVERNOR'S REPORT |World War II who will bel “It gives me great pleasure to re- thoroughly understanding of and| port that I consider the perform- sympathetic with the problems of ance of the Legislature to have the returning servicemen. (Also,| been outstanding. The session was I believe it would be helpful toi Governors Lauds Veferans Splendid Bill | JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1946 THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE NEW'S A SALES TAX IS l REALLY GROSS INCOMES LEVY Rivers Say; New Veterans| Act Is Misnamed-Ex- plains fo C. of C. Despite initial confusion on the issue, the recently passed tax bill on gross income is “neither insur- mountable in administration nor inequitable in application,” Attor- . ney General Ralph Rivers told members of the Juneau Chamber of | Commerce this noon at the organi- zation’s regular luncheon-meeting in the Baranof Gold Room. In an introductory talk preced-| ing open forum discussion of the| tax issue, Attorney Rivers said! that much of the confusion in un- | derstanding the tax bill was due to early publication of the bill as a “Sales Tax.”, Tax On Gross Income | “Actually,” he said, “it is more clearly defined as a bill establish- The Washington = ¢.5 : Merry - Go-Round |the U. S. Department of Commerce, ! By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—There is an ex- cellent reason why Secretary of State James Byrnes has been urg- ing the Russians to sit down with him soon at the long-delayed peace conference. There is also a signi- ficant back-stage reason why the Russians up to this week had been hanging back. A Both reasons: revolve rotnd’ the! same dynamite-laden situation— Trieste. Each side, however, views it from a different angle. The Russians wanted to delay the peace conference until Mar- shal Tito cculd get his troops in- or both, a technical advisory ser;!ing a tax on gross income derived vice, which may give whatever BS-"irom all businesses conducted in, {sistance possible to veterans whoithe Territory. It includes a tax on |will endeavor to set themselves up, sales, services, and exporting, with |in ‘new businesses). i one percent collectable on all sales ' “The only controversial issue re- and services in excess of $100 dur- Imaining in connection with the bill| ing any one quarter, and one-half !—once the struggle to maintain its! percent on wholesale deals and ex- liberal provisions had been won«fpm't.s. The main exception in tax- |is the method of financing it: I,jable income is that of salaries. The! personally, would have preferred! bill specifically eliminates tax ;any method other than a sales tax, against wages paid to an employee |ad did m}xsv;’isc‘a majfomy of the'by an employer.” { |House, which, in conference With geryices, the speaker explained, | e aire. N o | ineludes such service as that ren-| majority preférfed the sales Lnx'?eudlw SO tl T:n' m“zb"‘ g?c- ,and declined any compromise or‘rlor’ :wyex;,"ec, A no(‘ns | modificatin. However, it is my view' . he mb Sxosping; Mubition fht Bhe . methon of’ tazation,: as) COTHOIREIDGE Hoim. 156 Sheppatit:, and therefore all monies collected |far as this bill is concerned, is rela- | b ies f betéast | [tive unimportant in comparison | Py companies for abstrac eoixmid | FAIRBANKS MEN MAKE AUTO TRIP, ALCAN HIGHWAY Report Good Road, Well| Surfaced, Well Kept Up ~Arrive in Seattle 11—Philip A. SEATTLE, April (Johnson and Paul G. Greimann of | Fairbanks, Alaska, | here after an automobile trip over have arrived the Alaska military highway and today reported the route was “a good road well surfaced and well kept up.” Johnson, vice president of the Bank of Fairbanks, and Greimann, operator of the Fairbanks Univer- sity bus line, said they left Fair- banks March 28 and stopped for | seven days in Montana before driv- ing on to Seattle. They estimated the distance covered at 3,800 miles. Johnson said requests by civil- ians for permission to travel the route might be denied but “I have it on good authority that anyone who shows up at Dawson Creek, Y. T, or at Fairbanks in a well equipped car with spare parts, ex- ! location program caused serious tra gasoline, plenty oi food and|delay in Alaska to the fishing is whether Alaska longshoremen fleet. They said that dealers to|should recelve retroactive pay to sleeping equipment, plus a reason- able excuse . . . .is allowed to drive” over the road Gasoline stations and lunch| rooms are about 330 miles apart on | the military highway, they said. | WILL TRAVEL OVER HIGHWAY SEATTLE, April 11—Traveling! under permit of the Traffic Control | Board at Edmonton, Alta, the R. J. Bowers family of Seward, Al-| aska, will leave for home tomorrow | via the Alaska military highway.! The highway officially is closed, to| civilian travel. ; | Bowers, operator of the Kenai Rod and Gun Club, said the party! will include his wife, and their| daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith. Spare equip-‘ {Opposition Voiced by Fish- | veggel owners and captains. | The spokesman said that the al- ALLOCATION (SHIP STRIKE OF HALIBUT | END HINTED PROTESTED, AT SEATTLE Voic Confusion TReports on erman, Also Ownersof | Progress of Negotia- Vessels Involved tions at Ketchikan SEATTLE, April 11.—Seattle hal-| Associated Press dispatches re- ibut fishermen declared that the celved by the Empire this after- halibut allocation program of the noon indicated a quick end to the government has caused confusion |Alaska longshoremen’s strike. How-| and delay in the marketing of |ever, these reports from Seattle catches in voieing oppesition to|conflict with latest information continuation of the plan at a hear- |received from Ketchikan where ing here, conducted by Andrew W.|strike negotiations are taking place. ( Anaerson, Chief of the Fish and| According to the Seattle dis- wildlife Service’s Division of Com-|patches: A steamship operator at mercial Fisheries. Seattle said that both the employ- Opposition to the program was €rs and the longshoremen now voiced by Harold E. Lokken, Man- have agreed to arbitrate their diff- ager of the Seattle Fishing Vessel erences and “the end of the strike Owners' Association, and a commit- [iS in sight.” Both sides have agreed tee consisting of halibut fishing|to accept Dr. Vernon A. Mund, | Professor of Economics at the Uni- | versity of Washington, as arbitra- tor and the issue to be arbitrated, | | | located often October 1, 1944 and other benefits lawarded Paclfic Coast longshore- Labor Board whom the fish was al did not have the facilities for re- celving the catches, causing an- other serious delay to vessels. Charles Smith of the Office of | Price Administration, San Fran- {men under a War | directive, he said. Also at Seattle, Steve Glumaz, International Representative for cisco, urged that the halibut catch the ILWU, added to the optimistic be ailoc:ted to dealers as in 1944 Picture, but restated the condition and 1945 “in the interest of pro-|that is reported fo have proved the tumbling block in latest Ketchikan per price control and to avoid ® o disturbance of normal channels of |negotiations. Glumaz said: distribution.” | “The Alaskan employers hnve} 32 an hour 9 {agreed to pay Ofi u:v“f c:"";:"fu;wm!n!‘x:lf‘sflnight time and $1.88 an hour Undér @ treaty with Canada, a wfwc e,c.:g;:c:p:l?el:‘. proposition cateh of 52,500,000 pounds of hali-! 9 with the condition that they im. but has been authorized for this magiately seek approval of the year. The allocation plan has been gor.oment from the government based on the amount of halibut ggencies involved, and that all pro- purchased by _Lhe dealers during ayisions of pending Pacific Coast five-year period before the Warijongshore agreements and all agree- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —_— {with the fact that we have -a ities such as electricity and tele-{,.\¢ win include extra tires, a fan side this controversial city, If he generous veterans’' bill, which re-: could get his troops inside, zhej(usal to accept the sales tax would | Russian-Yugoslav bloc could pre-|undoubtedly have Jjeopardized. { phone service is likewise taxable. Tax on these services and on sales | of tangible commodities may be sent the peace conference with an| accomplished fact and dare the diplomats to give Trieste to some- ore else. Secretary Byrnes, on the other hand, wanted to confer with the foreign ministers this month, not only becausé the peace conference already was too long delayed, but because American troops in Trieste are already at the brink of open warfare with a former ally. And the longer they sit there, the more dangerous the situation becomes. TROOPS ORDERED TO FIRE Several developments in the past few days have made Trieste even more explesive. They are: | passed on or absorbed by the busi-i ¢| ness man as he sees fit. | Cannot Bz Hidden Since price levels on items sold Veterous Education | “Legislatin for the education o |veterans ifi order to enable them, ito take adyantage of the education-! |al provisions in the G: I. Bill of under OPA ceilings cannot be rais- Rights, under which the Federal ed, taxes on these items cannot be |government pays ex-servicemen’s | “hidden” but may be marked up on | |tuition and $65 a month for single! sale slips and books as a separate | and $90 for married men, did not,entity from the cost and the two | I measure up to the high standards|added together as the ultimate |of ‘achievement set in the Veterans'| Price paid by the consumer. | Act. | In cases where sale prices :u'e! | “I had hoped that the Leglsla-" not regulated by OPA, a new price | lture would establish a southern,may be set on merchandise and the | |branch of the University of Alas-!Sales tax covered in this way. OPA | |ka and provide whatever addi-|does not regulate prices on maga- Itional facilities were needed for|Zines, books, or any Pemd‘“‘s‘ the University at Fairbanks., How- | containing editorial matter, Mr.| |ever, the failure to secure passageiRivers said. In a number of cases | 1. Tito has forbidden American of some excellent bills, introduced and British airplanes to fly over both in the House and Senate to| Jugoslav territory on remnnais-;‘ms end, is less disappointing thnnl sance flights. He has given his men Might appear in view of the real- orders to shoot such planes on,ities of the situation, which are $ |that construction materials will be sight. 2 Twenty thousand Russian|virtually unobtainable in the com- i{roops have left Hungary and ing twelve months. While such legislation would have spelled some | progress in the next year, and speed | is essential, this twelve months m-i terval will at least make it possi- ble to work out plans in complete detail and to present a well-round- | ed program - at the next regular| session. Certainly conscientious ef- crossed the border into Jugoslavia. U. S. observers know this from the reconnaissance flights which Tito, has now banned. Probably that's the reason he banned them—to, prevent further knowledge of Rus-| sian troop movements. | 3. U. 8. troops in Trieste have| been given orders to fire if the Jugoslavs enter the city. 4. The Italian Government has offered to place 15 divisions at the disposal of the Americans and Bri- tish. .However, they lack heavy atms and would have to be given new equipment. The United States has declined this offer. In brief, Trieste has all the po- tentialities of war. Some diplomatic observers think this is what the Russians want — drmed conflict between the United States and Jugoslavia. Obviously the Russians don't want to bear the brunt of this conflict or initiate it. However, if a puppet such as Tito, who has a reputation for irresponsible bra- gadoccio, can be the front man, the Russians might be delighted. CAPITAL CHAFF Judge Sam Rosenman, although off the White House pay-roll, was the chief author of the President’s Army Day speech in €hicago. . . . Bob Hennegan, who went to Ari- z0na to regein his health, was ill again last week in Tucson with a strep throat. He is better now. . Two weeks ago, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin sent two members of —_—. e h e . (Continued on Page Four) . fort was made in both houses to iprices on such reading material| have already gone up as high as| five cents. | When the purchase price of an| article is less than 50 cents and| therefore not taxable as high as a! penny, Mr. Rivers said the fol- lowing pelicy, endorsed by OPA, may be followed: An article ranging in price from' 49 cents to $1.50 may be taxed one penny. If the price is less than 49[ cents there is nothing for the deal-| er to do but absorb the tax him- self. This should not amount to a| burden, however, said Rivers, since | on many other sales such as 50-| take care of the veterans’ educa-lcent ones he should be able to| |tional needs also. But diversity of i make up the difference in tax re- {opinion, the difficulty of getting! turns. {the Board of Regents of the Uni-! Commences April 4 { |versity to make a decision, the! The tax bill, signed by Governor' {known shortage of building mater-{ Gruening en April 3, covers only | |ials—all these combined to deferijncome from April 4th inclusive. No! |this problem until the next Ses-|time limit has been set on the tax. ision. It will give us a fine target|{y; ywill end at the close of the| to shoot at a year hence. quarter in which a collection goal. Two Labor Bills {of $3500,000 Is reached. It is pos- “The Legislature did" not stoDigjple he said, that this goal may ‘mem It passed two excellent 1aborip. reached in the middle or some | bills—legislation which I urged ”!other period of a quarter. In that| ‘j?X;is.;ln?rmyax}:“ha?eesifizn:;e;‘r‘C'Se' the tax will continue to be 2 ure - i ¢ 1 ‘ed at subsequent sessions. In that (Gontianad, on,Patf—e_E_lyht) ! 1941 message, I proposed that ‘Workmen'’s Compensation coverage be extended to all workers. In this respect the Act falls short. It pro-| tects workers only in operations where three or more are employed (an. improvement over the existing A . Act which covers only establish- | Anaconda 46%, Commonwealth and ments h " i \SOuLhen? 43, Curtiss-Wright 7%, leaving w:;e f:‘:p;’;y“m(:h;. wt)rfii International Harvester 97%, Ken- alone, or with one other, unpm_;necctt 57%, New York Central 23, Lecteé in case of nccaflené. Northern Pacific 27%, United Cor-! Nor are the amounts of com ation | Poration 5%, U. 8. Steel 84%, PenSALION | 1 ound $4.03%. increased as they should have been, since the cost of living has risen xs)zl” L‘;xday 'e‘:: 1,220,000 ';‘“"' reatly in the seventeen years cince | w, Jones averages today are & Y i :a.s follows: industrials 206.96, rails | 6456, utilities 4274, NEW. YORK, April 11.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- poration 7%, American Can 97%4, " (Continued on Page Two) belt, coil, points, spark plugs, ou,‘ anti-freeze, an ax, shovels, blan-; kets, 25 gallons of gasoline and nl blow-torch. [ '''' | ANOTHER QUAKE IS RECORDED May Be in Northern Chile| or Out on Tipof | Aleutian Chain WESTON, Mass, April 11. — A very strong earthquake—as severe as the one that caused a recent fatal tidal wave—was recorded by the Weston College seismograph at 9:0325 pm. (EST) last night, the Rev. Daniel Linehan, seismologist, reported today. " Linehan said the direction was uncertain but it was centered about 4,745 miles from Boston “probably in northern Chile or it could be off the tip of the Aleutian Islands. 1t lasted about three hours and was | about as strong as the quake of | April 1, causing the tidal wave, off Alaska.” | CAPTAIN COUCH DENED DIVORCE, 1S GIVEN ROAST Ben-! SEATTLE, April 11.—Capt. {jamin Couch, 26, who came here| from Germany to obtain a divorce | -STOCK ouou]‘m irram his Seattle wife, has been de-|Government’s plan to cut baker's nied one and given a verbal lash-| ing by Superior Judge James Tu) Ronald. He granted her claim for separate maintenance and $125 al {month support money. | “Not one of the four million men | in the nation’s armed forces got' more uplifting letters than captain got from his wife,” Judge Ronald commented. “Every time he called for money, she sent it.” Captain Couch charged cruelty in asking a divorce his 34-year- old wife, Anne Malie, a beauty operator. They were married in Ketchikan in February, 1941, \Official Testimony of | when conditions in the *industry | ments in the future automatically were normal. be extended to Alaska. The ships Seattle fishermen also told An- tied up by the strike in Alaska drew W. Anderson, Commercial ghoyld begin moving today.” Fisheries Chief for the Federal Fish | and Wildlife' Service, that halibut | ceiling prices must be raised if the| Ajthough ship operators at industry is to make a fair profit.|geattle were today reported to They asked that the 17% cents cell- |have expressed a hope that Alaska ing on medium halibut be boosted'ports would re-open tomorrow, lat- to 21 cents a pound and the 16 est advices from Ketchikan—cen- cents ceiling of large and small ter of negotiations—indicated there's halibut be boosted to 19 cents a still a long way to go to work out| KETCHIKAN REPORTS i pound. |a settlement of the longshoremen's D g istrike now handcuffing Alaska |shipping. | It 1s stated that employers ob- !jecc to inclusion of a new feature {in the union’s latest arbitration iproposal: That all provisions of a; |pending Pacific Coast agreement| !will be automatically extended to ! Alaska. | Wednesday afternoon, the Ketch- ’ 5 ikan Waterfront Employers Associa- TTLE, ~—Thy | - ‘G\?nEr: bon‘rdflp]:xlxv: 1gaur‘:g cu::t tion, representing Alaska ship own- | wrebk ‘f the liner Yukan, who have{ €58 and dock operaipra i1 negotis: i retuFned hers after s series of hear- (11008 With: the striking: woskers of | ings in Alaska, reported today jt |the International vl.onglhoremens; 'may go to San Francisco to nbtaln.‘md Warehousemen's Unlon (C10), | s cepasition. from Mrs. Maribel(TonEWEd” S5 ofler t0 pey & basei |Pyle, a Yukon survivor. ‘hourly wage to longshoremen of i I “Mrs, Pyle spok> sharply about $1.32 per hour provided the union| the conduct of the crew when in-i"m Touim. ie me:‘ {0 work i terviewed here after tha wm(k_;medhbely. However, the employers{ |Cmdr. D. T. Smith, head of the m_mgnin tacked on the view that the | ¥ 2 question to be submitted to arbi- tration should be whether the August 18, 1945 directive of the Woman Survivor o Yukon Wreck, Soughi | vestigating board, said its members |were “very much interested” in ob- taining her official testimony. ! Commander Smith refused com- War Labor Board which raised the this | that they cannot exist without rais- Ibase pay of longshoremen in Pac-| ific Coast ports by five cents per hour is applicable to Alacka ports. Union Objects That proviso has already been ob- jected to by the union, which pro-| posed that arbitration should be concerneg with the period over which retroactive pay is due the workers plus extension to Alaska of other benefits received by Pacific Coast dock workers under the WLB directive. The course of negotiations since yesterday afternoon between the| Waterfront Employers at Ketchikan and the Alaska Negotlating Com- mittee for the ILWU, algo head- quartered at Ketchikan as repre-| sentative for all Alasks locals, has ment on findings, but said the in- quiry “is almost completed.” The; board’s recommendations will go to| Washington for final decision and| will not be made public before that time. Bread Prices May Go Up in Stales; | Reducion in Flour: NEW YORK, April 11. — Bread prices will rise as a result of the use of flour by 24 percent, Faris R. Russell, chairman of the Ward Bak- ing Co. said today at the annual|p.... HOCKEPMI. - eeting. 1—Last night the Waterfront Em- The flour supply cut will 50 re- |, overs proposed a return to work duce the business of the cOUntry'sige the $132 per hour base rate,| 20000 small bakers, Russell said, subject to the condition that such | rate be approved by the proper gov- R o ernment agencies. . 5] 2—Today the Alaska Negotiating WASHINGTON, April 11. — AD| Gommittee offered a counter-pro- Allied mission reported today theipn,eq) gecepting the terms of the Greek elections of March 31 were employers’ offer and declaring long- ing prices. |with a “shortage” of proteins in REATENS SALMON INDUSTRY AFL CONVENTION HEARS HAAS HIT NEW COMP. LAW Proxy Vote Is Banned on| Convention Business— Much Work Ahead ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 11.— (Special to the Empire)—Delegates to the annual convention of the Al- aska Territorial Federation of La- bor (AFL) were working earnestly yesterday to expedite business, with much to be accomplished during the remainder of the week. All committees were organized and were well underway in attack- ing the problems before the con- vention. A recommendation of the credentials committee, that all del- egates be seated and that all prox- ies be acknuwledged, was accepted in entivety. Some discussion arcse over the| right to vote proxies upon issues affecting only the convention. Fin- al decision was that proxies may be used for election of officers, chang- es in the constitution and other questions affecting locals during the coming year but not on ques- tions involving the convention only. | J. M. Casey, from 8an Francisco, representing American Federation of Labor President William L Green, gave a dissertation upon the outmoded use of proxies in labor conventions in the United States and pled with committees to be fearless in their recommendations to the body. Mike Haas, representative of the Wages and Hours Division of the U. 8. Department of Labor, spoke Wednesday. ‘morning on objections to the Green-Shattuck Workmen's Compensation Law enacted dur- o ing the special legislative session just ended. Haas' chief objection was that he does not approve any compensation not paid from an ex- clusive state fund. . District Judge Anthony J. Di- mond addressed the convention Wednesday afternoon. The theme jof his remarks was avoldance of any form of communistic activity in labor organizations. PR BT 485 #47ES Dl0ES IS MISSING NOW EDMONTON, Alta, April 11— A report that a forest ranger at Fairview, northwest of Edmonton, had seen Monday the American- owned civilian aircraft which has been missing since it took off from here for Grande Prairie, 253 miles | northwest of Edmonton, was being | investigated today as RCAF and United States Army Alr planes continued their search for| it. Aboard the plans were two broth- ers identified as Richard Ledward and E. D. Ledward, of Waukeskz, Wis. It is understood the missing aircraft is owned by an Anchorage, | Alaska, man and that the plane was heading for Anchorage when it left, carrying radio range receiving set but no transmitter. RCAF officials had no report of any developments in the widespread search today. (laims Pulp Wastes Will Yield Tons 0of Proleins__ ATLANTIC CITY N, J. April 11— A chemical engineer today sug- gested utilization of waste wood products as food sources to cope the United States. A Declaring there is a shortage of 20,000,000 tons of proteins in foods available to the nation’s people and livestock, Dr. Robert T. Alres, of New Haven, Conn., told the Am- erican Chemical Soclety this “could be partly offset by recover- ing proteins from pulp paper mill wastes.” He told the chemists in a report to their 109th meeting that in ad- ‘Date Is Set for April 21- Force ! It is a single-engined monoplane | | tcld the United . States would wel- | Novikov's appointment to Russia's dition to 150,000,000 pounds of yeast and cattle fodder which can produced annually from pulp wastes “free and fair” and represented “a g ,remen will return to work on true and valid verdict” of the| __ Greek people, (Continued on Page Eight) “ practically inexhaustable amount can be made from sawdust, wood waste and unsalable wood.” PRICE TEN CENTS WORKERS IN CANNERIES T0 STRIKE Statement Issued by Seattle Union SEATTLE, April 11. — With a breakdown in negotiations, cannery workers in the Alaska canned sal- mon industry will go on strike April 21, it was announced by the Pub- licity Committee of the Food, To= bacco, Agricultural and Allled Workers of America CIO), which uas been representing’ the cannery workers and farm laborers union “ocal 7 in Seattle and six locals of the FPTA in Alaska. The committee’s statement sald the employers had not departed ‘rgm their | original offer. “Their original offer of a 9 per- cent increase, made on a take it or leave it basis, amounts to a raise of only six cents per hour in our lowest category,” the statement sald. “This represents only one- third of the national wage-raise pattern which has been established in steel, auto and electrical indus- tries. 5 “We have’ already notified all ther unions invplved in the Alas- ka " salmon canning operation of our action and’ we have been formed ;by Pred Scheel of the Al ska Fishermen's Union that Seattle branch had voted to give us’ complete support.” $ ! elter Fuhrer, representing the - ustry - tinue until the year in which the claimed the end of “All but this one union memorandum agreement 3 this spring that the 1942 contract still is in effect, but we i agreed to amend the termination clause s0 that in future the tract can be reopened by party. Only this one union tends the 1942 agreement has oired, on the ground the “ war” has ended.” NEW MOVE BYRUSSIAIS ANNOUNCED WASHINGTON, April 11.—Dip- lomatic officials hailed Russia’s appointment of a new ambassador to the United States as a fresh sign today of Soviet faith in the United Nations. * Moscow last night announced ap- pointment of Nikolai V. Novikov as Ambassador in Washington, suc- ceeding Andrel A, Gromyko, Rus- sia’s permanent representative w the U. 8. Security Council. State Department officials later confirmed hat Russia recently had made the usual inquiries about the acceptability of Novikov — present Charge D'Affaires—and had been i come his appointment. Diplomatic offieials who relayed regard for the U, 8, reasoned this way: If the Soviet Union took UN. lightly it would not have assigned an official of Gromyko's stature and experience fo devote full time to the Council job. Gromyko's appointment was an- nounced March 24, the day before the U. 8. Council met for the first time in New York. It was not until Novikov's appointment was an- chores to perform. ¢ The U. N. job 15 one for which the special assignments of the black-haired, 38-year-old Soviet diplomat during the last three years have prepared him. Gromyko has sat in on virtuslly every tional conference’ having with the establishment’of